This past weekend, Belgium was buzzing PHP all the way. PHPBenelux organized the first annual international PHP conference in Belgium and it can be called a true success. [...] This was the first conference that I not only attended, but was actually involved behind the scenes. It was a great experience and I have now more respect to organizers of bigger conferences now that we know what kind of challenges they have to overcome.

Last weekend I was privileged to speak at the inaugural PHPBenelux conference in Antwerp, Belgium. [...] The conference itself was very well organised and the venue worked very nicely. [...] The venue itself was just across the car park and had plenty of rooms with an open exhibition space which worked nicely - the two tracks were on opposite sides of this space so the footfall for the exhibitors was hopefully good! Full marks go to the crew.

If you didn't get a chance to make it to this year's PHP Benelux conference, you might want to check out this wrapup from Ben Waine about his experiences and the sessions he's enjoyed most.

I have finally arrived home after the PHP Benelux Conference in Antwerp. It was an excellent conference. There were some truly excellent sessions at the conference, good mix of technical presentations and more abstract sessions on emerging technologies and management.

Among his notable presentations were Fabien Potencier's "Dependency Injection in PHP 5.3", "The State of SOAP" from David Zulke and Ivo Jansch's "PHP & The Cloud". He also mentions the talk that Eric Ritchie whos presentation was done entirely remotely.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the organisers of the conference for the great job you did. The event ran very smoothly, the content was superb and the social was really memorable. I'll be watching twitter for the announcement of #phpbnl11, as this event was so popular I don't want to miss the next!